The dining hall was too loud for 7 AM.
Aegis sat between Scarlett and Lune, mechanically shoving eggs into her mouth while her brain tried to process the chaos around her. Seven days until the Monthly Ranking Test. Seven days to figure out how she was going to keep her spot at the top.
[Helps that I have some actual skills now. Not quite a challenge run like it was before.]
"You're brooding," Scarlett said through a mouthful of bacon.
"I'm thinking."
"Same thing with you."
Across the hall, Serilla Frost held court at the opposite side table. She had three girls hanging on her every word and two boys staring at her tits. Every few seconds, she'd laugh—the kind of laugh that made everyone in a ten-foot radius turn to look.
[Show-off.]
"She's really working the room," Lune observed, sketching in her notebook without looking at it.
"She's a predator marking territory," Scarlett corrected. "Look how she keeps glancing at Liora's table."
